Re: New pronunciation of Bangalore


Aidan Kehoe napisal(a):

Well, India has a better claim to it than France or Germany; it has millions
who speak English, a good chunk of them native speakers (certainly if you
apply the same standards of what a native speaker is as are applied in the
US or Europe, and ignore that the accent isn't European or North American)

Uh, you mean they use English almost exclusively so that children learn
it primarily from their parents and other children and start school
with a native speaker understanding of grammar?

It's been my understanding that most Indians who use English do so
primarily as a 9-5 work language after mostly learning it in school and
not a 24/7 everything language.

Although if the Indian movies I've seen are any indication most Indians
like to sprinkle their conversation with English expressions that don't
have anything to do with the subject at hand or anything at all as far
as I can tell, just to show they can, I suppose.

I go back on forth on the native-name fad. On the one hand, there's
nothing wrong with Bangalore, on the other hand, one of the prices
native speakers pay for the popularity of English is this kind of
stuff.

-michael farris

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